Testing and certification for voting equipment: how can the process be improved?: hearing before the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, June 24, 2004.

Witnesses: Thomas Wilkey, Chair, Independent Testing Authority (ITA) Comm., Nat. Assoc. of State Election Directors; Carolyn Coggins, Dir., ITA Services at SysTest Labs; Michael Shamos, Prof. of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon Univ.; Hratch Semerjian, Acting Dir., NIST; & statements by Rep. Vernon Ehlers, Chmn., & Mark Udall, Ranking Minority Member, Subcomm. on Environment & Standards. Discussion: election mgmt. best practices & acceptance testing of voting equipment; should all computer-based voting equipment be required to have a paper trail?; technologies for reducing voter fraud; role & ability of NIST to address voter equipment testing & evaluation issues; & what does NIST need to fulfill this role?

Testing and certification for voting equipment : how can the process be improved? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, June 24, 2004.

The 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) created the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and, among other things, assigned the Commission responsibility for testing and certifying voting systems. In view of concerns about voting systems and the important role EAC plays in certifying them, the author was asked to determine whether EAC has: (1) defined an effective approach to testing and certifying voting systems; (2) followed its defined approach; and (3) developed an effective mechanism to track problems with certified systems and used the results to improve its approach. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.

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